試題詳解

43. In the final paragraph, Goodman Brown tells the man he meets in the woods that "Faith kept me back a while." Literally, he means that his wife made him late. What other meaning could this remark have had?
(A) His religious faith almost kept him from the journey.
(B) His faith in his marriage was more important than the journey.
(C) Faith is necessary to complete the things on is required to do.
(D) The remark could have no meaning beyond the literal one.